And here we go! In no particular order. The 103 finalists for the 2010 LAP.
The next list will be a shortlist. Hopefully we'll have that by next weekend...
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Anne Holbrook -- Northern Straits
Belinda Seagram -- This Big House: Journal of a Forensic Psychologist
Anne Leigh Parrish -- All The Roads That Lead From Home - a collection of stories
Alethea Black -- We've Got a Great Future Behind Us
Claire Cox -- You Fox
Robert Epstein -- Wooden Nickels
Ellen Graf – Baba Yaga is Not Your Mama
Lucinda Lucero Sachs -- Bizcochito Cool
Mark Wagstaff -- Moving Pictures
Bo Moore -- Some People Who Wander (Are Lost)
Cyrus Samii -- Seal it with a petal, bind it with a thorn
Cara Diaconoff -- Georgia, and Points West
Donna Rabin -- Job Openings
Jordana Signer -- A Day and a Life
Kathy Flann -- Karaoke Night at the El Corazon Disco Lounge
Kristie Duffy -- The New World
Melanie Zipperer -- Letters to My Wife
Lisa Lieberman -- The Way Back
Joanna Powers -- Manifesto
Laura Alonso -- Oh Children, How You Teach Us!
Diane O'Leary -- Patient
Pete Madzelan -- Day Rising & Night Falling
William Smith -- The Road to Damascus
Peter Lee -- Walls
Mark Conkling -- Prairie Dog Blues
Clyde Derrick -- Proud Skin
Paul Takeuchi -- The Hashimoto Complex (a novel)
Nicole Louise Reid -- A Purposeful Violence
Carol Test -- Rain Dogs
Tom Pierce -- Sleeper Hold: Stories
Raquel Rivera -- Beba
Bernadette Esposito -- The Cat That Brought Down Flight 800
Sandra Jensen -- SERENDIP
Patty Sroka – DEFIANCE
Tara Laskowski -- Black Diamond City
Frank Rizzuto -- The Death of Bingo
Andrew Rhodes -- The Spirit of Secret Lake
Stephanie French-Mischo -- Shelf Life
John Edward Hicks -- Stand By Me
Jeffrey Cretan -- A Strange Business
Holly Patrone -- The Harper's Ring
Allison Cobb -- Green Wood
Amy Strychasz -- Buffalo Gals
Ryan Kelley -- Sugar and a Pack of Marlboros are Only Two Blocks Away
Sarah Richardson -- Surface Tension
David Jessup -- Spirit Theft
J K Shushtari -- The Sweet Dry Fruit of the Lotus Tree
Stephen Delaney -- Territory
Colleen Smith -- Glass Halo
John Jensvold -- The Train
James O'Brien -- The Dirt Baby
Elisa Fernandez-Arias -- The Winery
Robert Hopper -- The Book of Adam: Autobiography of the First Human Clone
Richard Sutton -- The Red Gate
Tandy Tillinghast -- Best Place in a Long Dark
Jason Todd -- Stupid, Stupid Men
J.S. Kaulfus -- Troglodytes
S. Wallace Huntington -- What I Thought I Wanted to Know
Karima Alavi -- In the Shadow of the Tombs
Johanna Garfield -- Confessions of an Eyelash Junkie
Kathy Leonard Czepiel -- A Good Regret
Claire Cox -- Do You Party
Paul Marks -- EDGE CITY AND OTHER STORIES
Jon Rittenberg -- The Resurrection of Carver Bryce
Lori Isbell -- Far As Anybody Might Ever Get Out
Nathaniel Henderson -- Fluffy Bunny Kill Force
Robert McBrearty -- Hello Be Thy Name
Quressa Robinson -- I Know the Secrets That the Angels Keep
Jeanne Gassman -- The Blood of A Stone
Shirley Sullivan -- Bad
Jessica Brown -- Wading
Emily Attridge -- One Man's Junk - Another Man's Treasure
Lyn Chamberlin -- A Hole in the Ocean (memoir excerpt)
Beth Alvarado – Maldiciones
Joel Augee -- The Life of Umberto Cavallo and Other Matters
Rachel Andrews -- A New Wilderness at the Maze
Robert Mundy -- Coffee at the Homey
Greg Kern -- A Different Border
Dale Eisler -- Anton
Arianna Perry -- The Dark Dream
Mark Dostert -- Up In Here: Jailing Kids on Chicago's Other Side
Joanne Bodin -- Walking Fish
Rachael Warecki -- King
R. Aidan Johnston – The Day After Hunter Died: Manifest Destiny, Nerves and Bourbon at the Paragon Club, The Postmodern American Dream Goes Awry in Portland Town
Mary B. Blalock – A Given Choice
Marguerite Kearns – A Tree Grows in Green Haven
Trudy Lewis – Radio Ranger
Ashley Elston -- Hidden
Barbara Mayor – The River
Adele Woodyard – Murder Intended
Jason DeBoer -- Knifing the Bard
Robert Upton – Waiting for Calypso
Clinton Waller -- Shasta's Monsters
Susan Alexis – Confessions of a Transplant
Andrew Murphy -- Climbing Slieve Gullion
Colleen Story -- Rise of the Sidenah
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